EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 85 



in a manner somewhat similar to the Mallard Duck, but the 

 note is more like barking." Vol. ii. p. S85. 



In the summer of 1838, an Egyptian Goose, in the garden 

 of the Zoological Society, paired with a Penguin Drake,* and 

 the eggs were productive. The same two birds were kept 

 together in the following season, and the result was, more 

 productive eggs. The young birds were preserved, and kept 

 by themselves experimentally. In the following season many 

 eggs were produced between these hybrid brothers and sisters, 

 the females sat steadily, but the eggs were not productive, and 

 those examined exhibited no appearance of embryotic forma- 

 tion. 



Besides various instances of single specimens of the Egyp- 

 tian Goose having been obtained in this country, a flock of 

 five were seen on the Fern Islands in April 1830. A small 

 flock visited the Tweed in February 1839. Three were 

 shot at Carapsie, near Glasgow, in November 1832. Mr. 

 Wallace, of Douglas, sent me word that a flock of nine were 

 seen in the Isle of Man, in September 1838. This species 

 has been killed in Ireland. Four were shot on the Severn, 

 near Bridgwater, in February 1840; two were shot in Dor- 

 setshire, in 1836 ; and Colonel Hawker mentions " two killed 

 in Norfolk, and three at Longparish in Hampshire, in the 

 winter of 1823; and the next year again, during some tre- 

 mendous gales from the west, a flock of about eighty appear- 

 ed near the same place, when two more were killed." 



The beak in the centre is pale brown ; the nail, the mar- 

 gins, and the base dark brown ; the irides wax yellow ; round 

 the eye a patch of chestnut brown ; cheeks and sides of the 

 neck pale rufous white ; forehead, crown of the head, back of 

 the neck, the back scapulars and tertials, rich reddish-brown; 

 the carpal portion of the wing, the smaller and the larger 



* The Penguin Duck, so called from its walking nearly upright, is only a 

 variety of the Common Domestic Duck. 



